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My Roommate is so Open-minded!

My roommate and I had a talk last night. We get along great… and we had quite a fiesty discussion (in a very positive sense) about beliefs.
He had apparently started reading my one and only copy of the Bible that takes its place among numerous other books on my bookshelf. My bookshelf has categorical classifications, and I tend to place the Bible somewhere in the Philo/Theological section of books.

Anyway, so my roommate had recently decided to read the Bible for the first time in his life, since he had never read the bible before. And thus, began our discussion on beliefs and reality. According to my roommate, I am very close-minded because I am an atheist. I hold on to a rigid position without considering God’s existence as even a remote possibility.
(Of course, I think his characterization of my beliefs is utterly inaccurate! But that’s for later).

So, he says he is very open-minded about things that he does not know or cannot know. Hence, he told me that in varying degrees of faith/knowledge, he believes in the following:

I asked him if he believed in the possible existence (since he is so open-minded) of the following. He said HE DID NOT BELIEVE in the existence of these:

Batman, Superman, Spiderman (spiderman — he did think there was some evidence that it could be true), Daredevil, etc.

So, it was fascinating for me to know all these things in believed in and things he did not believe in. I couldn’t get a clear and coherent explanation of the difference between the two sets of things.
Apparently, he wishes to always remain open to any kind of possibilities — like Unicorns, etc. and not deny that either they might have existed at some time in the past, or still currently exist somewhere right now.

It’s funny, how the divorce of Reason from the human mind in place of faith can give rise to such “open-minded” beliefs. I wonder if human civilization would have been able to come thus far in medicine, in science, in technology, in communication, in language, in computers, in art and architecture, etc. if all humans held “open-minded” beliefs in unicorns, vampires, werewolfs, witches, etc.
Who knows, we might have invented a “werewolf-inator”!